Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forget that we need Kissinger more than he needs us. He is the only widely respected, farsighted and truly able diplomat who can bring about some understanding and cooperation in these times of worldwide political turmoil. Can we pride ourselves on having so many internationally successful statesmen that we can do without...
...Moscow in 1966, and Willy Brandt expanded it with his Ostpolitik in 1969, but it is the Europeans, ironically, together with the Chinese and the Japanese, who have the greatest distrust of U.S.-Soviet détente. NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, the distinguished, strongly anti-Communist Dutch diplomat, warned at the Ottawa meeting that the U.S.S.R. considers détente a "oneway process serving the exclusive interests of the Soviet Union." One school of Kremlinologists, centered chiefly in Britain and including such men as Robert Conquest and Leopold Labedz, label détente "the American failure." They see American...
...more than three decades, Veteran Negotiator W. Averell Harriman, 82, has helped shape U.S. foreign policy. Among his varied duties, the roving diplomat has served as administrator of the Marshall Plan in Paris, chief negotiator of the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty and Ambassador to Moscow. Always a blunt and clear-eyed evaluator of Soviet intentions, Harriman recently returned to Moscow for a three-hour private discussion with Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, he discussed the state of U.S.-Soviet relations...
...honesty but the leaking that has gone out of control. "Apparently anything goes nowadays," said Goldwater. "Any Government employee with any kind of information feels free to hand it over to the nearest Washington Post reporter he can find. Perhaps the problem is that Dr. Kissinger is a diplomat, not a policeman. He apparently found himself confronted with a situation in which highly secret information of an international nature was being leaked, and he took the necessary steps to have it halted. Personally, I believe [Kissinger] would have been derelict in his duty if he had not done everything...
Died. Miguel Angel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan novelist, diplomat and winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for literature; of a respiratory ailment and intestinal tumor; in Madrid. A hulking man with strikingly saurian eyes, Asturias was a dedicated leftist. He spent much of his life abroad, either as a student, in diplomatic service or, when the Guatemalan government had taken one of its periodic swings to the extreme right, as an exile. His first major novel, The President, a searing indictment of a Guatemalan dictator, was followed by a trilogy blasting the imperialism of the United Fruit Co. in Latin America...